Catatan dan Gagasan George Orwell Primary Author mixed material bibliography Bekasi metabook 2016 monographic id Indonesian

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258p In the 1930s, the Left Book Club, a socialist group in England, sent George Orwell to investigate the poverty and mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Once there, he went beyond the requests of the book club, to investigate the employed as well. Orwell chose to live as the coal miners did — sleeping in foul lodgings, subsisting on a meager diet, struggling to feed a family on a dismal wage, and going down into the hellish, backbreaking mines. What Orwell saw clarified his feelings about socialism, and in The Road to Wigan Pier, he pointedly tells why socialism, the only remedy to the shocking conditions he had witnessed, repelled so many normal decent people. Orwell's code was a simple one, based on truth and 'deceny'; he was important — and original — because he insisted on applying that code to his own Socialist comrades as well as to the class enemy...It is the best sociological reporting I know.—The New Yorker NONE9786027326736 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 824 ORW Roa 9196 C2O library & collabtive 824 ORW Roa 7885 2026-02-04 15:18:06 2026-02-04 15:43:52 machine generated